As early as the Song Dynasty, Mi Fei, a famous painter at that time, described the cloud in his monograph "The History of Inks": "The rocks of Ge Xiangong in Fangcheng, Tang Zhou, are exposed to sunlight in stone theory, like jade, like light, and the ink is like mud, not slippery, slightly polished, and the ink has hung down ... For a long time, the ink has been shining like paint, shiny, dazzling, impervious, and old, often as new. If the moon is like a star and not dazzled. " As a master of calligraphy and painting, Mi Fei collected many famous inkstones in his life. But on the one hand, the genuine purple inkstone originated in Huangshi Mountain has always been a "treasure on earth" in his mind.
Huang Tingjian, a great calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, got a piece of Huangshi inkstone from a good friend and couldn't put it down. He treasured it, hid it, and personally climbed Huangshi Mountain, and endowed it with "It's quite easy to explore the bag and give it away, not far from Huangshan Mountain; This is a hymn, because I know from my own materials that this mountain is beautiful and things are used as poor search. Under the influence of many literati and celebrities, Huangshi inkstone began to walk out of the "inkstone tile stone ditch" at the northern foot of Huangshi.
In the 1980s, the long-lost sound of quarrying and inkstone carving began to reverberate in the mountains of Huangshi. 1993 10, China Huangshi inkstone won the gold medal in China International Calligraphy and Painting Expo; 1994, China Huangshi inkstone participated in the national inkstone exhibition and won two gold medals in stone and craft. Since then, Huangshi inkstone has once again "emerged".